Word: racialization
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...tenth of our population which is colored has not taken all this governmental, military, naval, union, and private business discrimination lying down. So strong was feeling that last June President Roosevelt had to issue a prettily worded but ineffective executive order against racial discrimination in defense industries to forestall a well-planned "March to Washington of 100,000 Negroes." Hillman has had to ask large employers to stop importing labor and raiding neighboring firms after summarily rejecting Negro employment applications. No governmental official, however, has been sufficiently tough with the proto-fascist overlords, in and out of uniform, who persist...
...every one of these communities, as well as in every draft camp, Americans are coming face to face with the problems of discrimination which have too long blemished our national scene. This time these problems can not be dodged. Out of the racial and class melting pot of the army camps can come a new understanding which will spread over the nation. --From the Vassar Miscellany News...
LaGuardia (from a Baptist church): "Pray for forgiveness of those evil men with hatred in their hearts who, with strong words on their tongues, hurling invective and vituperation, create racial hatred because they are so desperate. Pray for them-they need it. Let us be serene, kindly and forgiving-for they know not what they do." (Night before, at a rally): "Whoever says [I have an interest in a bus line] is a dirty contemptible liar and a yellow cowardly...
...dreamed up an ingenious idea: an immense glass globe, lighted from within, to show President Roosevelt the disposition of all the world's armies, navies and air forces, and their positions from day to day, the economic resources of every theater of war, changes of population and their racial origins, war production in industrial areas-all projected on the surface of the globe in shining Technicolor from films inside. Somebody figured out that the globe would have to be about the size of the Perisphere at the late World's Fair...
...myth of Jewish solidarity is as fantastic as the myth of Catholic solidarity. There has never been any great issue in this country decided on purely racial or religious lines. But American solidarity today is being undermined by exciting such myths on such a bitterly discussed question...